The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will build a new bus stand at a cost of Rs. 30 crore for mofussil and express services at Udupi. KSRTC Chairman and Byndoor MLA K. Gopal Poojary told reporters on Monday that the bus stand would come up on a 2.5-acre land at Bannanje for which tenders will be being called for soon. These buses operate out of the old private bus stand taken on rent from the City Municipal Council.

Mr. Poojary said that the new bus stand would have an underground parking lot, 27 bus bays, a food court and a shopping complex. The bus stand can handle about 100 buses in an hour. Tenders have already been called for construction of a city bus stand in Udupi on the old DDPI office premises at a cost of Rs. 4 crore. Managing Director S.R. Umashankar said that the bus stand at B.C. Road would be ready for inauguration in about a month.

The forest department has come up with an ambitious project of a forest park at a cost of Rs 1.2 crore here at 80-Badagabettu area. RFO Clifford told DH that the park is coming up on a huge space covering 275 acres of land. It will be a unique project and will be opened for public within a month. The project comprises of forest cover in 60 acres and the remaining area will have all basic facilities, he added.

“Padukere can be developed as a beach where people come to spend their time in a quiet and leisure manner,” Sudesh Shetty, Developer In-charge of Malpe beach and St. Mary’s Island, said. Meanwhile, the Tourism Department has got proposals seeking to provide boat service to the nearby Darya Bahadurgarh Island (also called Bhadargad Island), where a fort is located. “We will have to get clearance from other authorities for this and also do a feasibility study on whether this can be provided,” Ms. Anitha said.

The island will now get a green cover with an eco-park where medicinal plants and local flora will be grown. As many as 50 almond saplings, 60 coconut saplings, along with saplings of mango and fig, were planted recently. Arrangements would be made to transport 10,000 litres of drinking water daily to the Island, which would then be reused to water these saplings.

For adventure enthusiasts, deep sea fishing, cliff jumping, kayaking and snorkelling facilities will be provided. “We will make provisions for camp fire at night. The real beauty of St. Mary’s Island can been seen from 4 p.m. to 9 a.m., when people can see the sunset and also the sunrise,” said Sudesh Shetty, owner of the private agency in charge of tourism promotion on the island.

What is the size of wearable device? How much effectively it can be hidden from offenders? Many of child traffickers are becoming smart enough to detect smart watch, smart locket, wrist phone, smart tag etc.

He (K. Satyamoorthy, director of SOLS) said the programme also created a startup ecosystem within the academic set-up and ensured that students were nurtured and mentored towards entrepreneurship in their expert areas in the biotechnology domain. “Manipal University is looking forward to initiate a bio-incubator in the near future, with the help of the authorities,” he said.

Summa: Investment of Rs. 1,000 crores, 10 acres land, 2 MMT production capacity, 500 jobs. Clinker will be brought through railways. Gypsum will be produced from FGD (flue gas desulfurization) system of UPCL. Currently 2 x 600 MW UPCL thermal power plant produces 0.3 MMT of flying ash. And 1.2 MMT of flying ash will be available after increasing capacity by another 2 x 800 MW. 80% of flying ash will be used by Adani cement plant and remaining 20% will be used by by others.

Summa: People can swipe debit or credit card or use PayTM for all transactions like parking, tea stall, book stall, local food court, general store, prepaid auto, hotel etc. In a few days even ticket counter will be cashless. With this Udupi Railway Station is the first cashless station of railways. With 2,000 daily passengers and Rs. 400,000 daily business Udupi Railway Station currently leads all Konakan Railway stations in business.

As in other waterfront theme parks of the world (waterslide through oceanarium, inflatable water park etc) {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}

'Film Studio' with 'Animation Studio'

'Kambla Track' & other Tulundau heritage displays

Startup/Hobby Theme Park within filmcity may lead to innovations in movies also. For example, innovative gadgets like kittyhawk can be used in films. Just imagine hero or heroine, who happens to be a hobbyist, flying on kittyhawk firing at terrorists' or smugglers' boat or ship.

Only thing is Kaup MLA should take interest to materialize the dream of people of his constituency for having a film city at Kaup and airport at Padubidri. By the way, why there is no news on progress made so far for construction of airport? Whether feasibility study is done or whether DPR itself is getting ready?